Box office: 'Divergent' tops while 'Muppets' flop

NEW YORK—With sequels already in the works, the young-adult franchise-in-the-making "Divergent" opened with $54.6 million.

The weekend total was revised slightly lower in Monday's actual box office reports. While it didn't earn as much as some predicted, the debut launches a new sci-fi dystopia franchise for Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment.

Disney's second Muppets film in three year, "Muppets Most Wanted," struggled to match the popularity of 2011's "The Muppets," opening with a tepid $17 million.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Monday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Rentrak, are:

Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.